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Show To Start a Balky Horse. Tho account of a driver's brutality to a balking horso In a recent Issuo leads no to write you tho fo'Iowing:- Somo years ago in Cincinnati, during dur-ing the noon hour In onr of tho busiest busi-est streets, a horse attached to an express ex-press wagon becamo L . Iky. Many remedies were tried without effect. Presently one of Cincinnati's best known horsemen camo along. When ho saw tho trouble he smilingly asked ask-ed for a stone, which was given to him. Then ho asked tho driver to lift up one foot of the horso and with tho stone ho struck the shoo a number num-ber of times. "Now," ho said to tho driver, "get up on your scat and drive off." This tho driver did, amid cheers of tho bystanders. Tho horseman said be had no idea why this made a balky iirse go, but ho had found It an untiling un-tiling remedy. Letter in Now York Times. |